Kirby Star Allies: Kirby’s debut on Nintendo Switch is a grand new adventure packed with content. The new Artist ability lets Kirby unleash his creativity, while the new Spider ability lets him ensnare enemies in webs. Kirby also can hurl new friend hearts at enemies to win them over with love and add them to his party. Plus, up to four friends* can team up and combine Kirby’s unique abilities with ally abilities for powerful new Friend Abilities. The game launches for Nintendo Switch on March 16.

March 2018 NPD: Kirby Star Allies has best debut month of sales in franchise history

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Based on the latest data from NPD, Kirby Star Allies had the strongest debut month of sales in the U.S. in the history of the franchise. It experienced a 90 percent better debut month than Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland, which was the previous record holder.

Adeleine, Daroach, and Dark Meta Knight will be included in the second wave. The third wave should feature Magolor, Taranza, Susie, and the Jambastion Mages. The mages will likely be a set similar to Rick & Kine & Coo.

Kirby Star Allies is getting its next major update on July 27. Daroach, Dark Meta Knight, and the recently-revealed Adeleine & Ribbon will all be added as new Dream Friends.

Level design director Yuki Endo has shared a few words about the inclusion of Adeleine & Ribbon. His comments touch on the characters’ long-awaited return, their abilities, and more. Endo also confirms that Kirby 64 stages will be available after completing the main story with Adeleine & Ribbon, including “a very memorable map at the end which fans may remember”. Endo adds that the update “introduces plenty of new game elements.”(...)What’s more, if you play with Adeleine & Ribbon as Guest Stars after completing the main story, you’ll get to take on brand-new maps! Have fun painting your way through classic Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards stages specially arranged for Kirby Star Allies. There’s a very memorable map at the end which fans may remember, so look forward to that!

In the tenth installment in the Kirby Star Allies channel, I’m going to tell you about an update to the Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! feature. Once Story Mode has been cleared, Kirby’s friends take center-stage in this mode, and you can take your pick of hero to play through with.

Up until this update, when playing through Guest Star ???? you could save and continue a game, but only with one character at a time. If you started from the beginning with a different character halfway through, all records of the game in progress (except for time records) would be deleted.

The second free update will allow you to have multiple Guest Star ???? games saved at once, so you can play through with all the friends.

For people who have played this mode before the update, we have added a feature by which save data can be automatically created from a Best Time record to allow those people to continue their games.

In other words, if you have a lot of friends cleared at level one, with this update you can continue playing even with friends you haven’t been able to play with yet.

And finally, here’s a minor spoiler.

If you watch the credits after clearing Guest Star ????, the friend you’ve cleared it with will appear in the audience. Complete it with various characters to grow the audience for the curtain call! Each Dream Friend added with the update will also come with their own levels, and the Friend Helpers’ levels will also get an upgrade.

The new Kirby Star Allies update adds new, retro levels based on Kirby 64, Squeak Squad, and Amazing Mirror when playing as the new Dream Friends in Guest Star Mode. GameXplain shows off the stages in the video below.

Also planned is a new “Another Dimension Heroes” mode. This is said to be a more difficult mode that takes place after the main story and you can play as the Dream Friends. Players can take on more difficult bosses here as well.